At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the Latin-American, the German, the Italian, the Anglo-American, and the American Indian, squaw and warrior. In the place of honor in… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.” — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
